Quotes About Mistake

The woods were wrong.

Cuando uno comete un gran error», reflexionaría filosóficamente, «es muy fácil que acabe revelándose de mayor utilidad que la más acertada de las decisiones. La vida es un todo indivisible, y la suerte también, y ninguno de sus componentes puede separarse del resto».

When you make some great mistake,' he philosophized, 'it may very easily serve you better than the best-advised decision.

But today's gap represents a failure of planning sometime in the past.

Confundí el cielo con las estrellas reflejadas por la noche en la superficie de un estanque.

Those who don't have a bed at all, you eliminate on the spot. From those who remain, you eliminate the owners of any dirty or slovenly beds. And when only those who have clean and tidy beds remain, you choose the one you find most attractive. Unfortunately, the method is not a hundred per cent foolproof. You can make a terrible mistake." "You're

You have made a mistake. You mistook the stars reflected in the surface of the lake at night for the heavens.

Don't do what you did during supper last time in front of her again.' 'You mean when I threw my fork at that rat?' 'No. I mean when you hit it, even in the dark.

If one makes a mistake, then an apology is usually sufficient to get things back on an even keel. However-and this is a big 'however'- most people do not ever know why their apology did not seem to have any effect. It is simply that they did not make a mistake; they made a choice…and never understood the difference between the two.

The biggest cultural mistake we can indulge in is to yearn for technological solutions to our deepest cultural problems.

The 50-50-90 rule: anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.

Go to work and mess up a big project. Nothing big enough to get fired, of course. While your supervisor is lecturing you about responsibility, watch the clock and calculate how much she is paying you to listen to her.

All because Darke stuff stuck to me at work, and then I brought it home. Horrible.

You know, parenting is so personal. And we're all afraid that we didn't quite get it right. And it feels like the stakes are so high. By we - what if we made a mistake?

When it's wet, you're much more tense on the steering wheel, you have to dance with the throttle and the brakes more. Each lap is a different scenario, so you're really on the edge of your nerves. One mistake could cost you the entire race.

I did some pretty bad things as a teenager. When I was 13, I took my friend's mom's car out for a joyride, and I actually managed to hit somebody else's car. No one was hurt, but needless to say, I didn't get behind the wheel again until I had my driver's license.

When in doubt, it is better to do the less conservative thing and to err on the side of the more colorful, possibly terrible mistake. That comes from thinking of yourself as a writer.

Whenever one pulls the trigger in order to rectify history's mistake, one lies. For history makes no mistakes, since it has no purpose.

Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

My sister and I mistakenly watched 'American Pie' whilst still living at home with our parents.

My first marriage was totally unsuitable and shouldn't have happened. It was a whirlwind, rebound thing. I was 23 or 24 - a baby.

I was wrong to exaggerate in statements related to my experiences in the White House and the Royal Family. I am truly sorry for misleading people and misstating the facts.

It was a mistake. I was wrong, but I discovered this many years later. I was acting on the basis of this mandate given me by the most important leaders of the world: President Bush's father, prime minister of France, President Mitterand, the Chinese, everybody.